Debian for the first time, a couple of problems

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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:01:00 +0200 (CEST)
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Well, I tried to post this to the "newsgroup"
linux.debian.user yesterday and wondered why my posting
never appears in there. Didn't know that this is actually a
kind of a mail-to-news-backend. Isn't there a reasonable
Debian-newsgroup? I find these groups much more convenient
than mailinglists...

But OK, here's my yesterdays question:

Since a couple of days I am fiddling with my new Sarge
installation. It's the first time I've installed a Debian
system and there is quite a lot of stuff which does not
work properly and about which I'm not able to find the
essential
hints on the web. And since yet I've not managed to make
the ISDN system work (which seems to be a major problem
with 2.6 kernels) and therefore without an internet
connection it's extra hard looking for the appropriate
information somewhere else, than returning home and finding
out that this probably doesn't solve the problem.

First of all, I've created the Sarge DVD images on July,
5th and so my installation uses only packages up to this
date. The kernel package is 2.6.6-1-686.

First strange thing is that during boot time there are lots
of FATAL messages about modules cannot be loaded, because
"operation not permitted". Nevertheless after booting lsmod
shows that quite a couple of modules got loaded anyway. But
for instance the module 'psmouse' did not, therefore X does
not start ('no core pointer found') and I have to do a
'modprobe psmouse' by hand first, which works.

OK, next very annoying thing is about the text console.
Whenever I use a program which draws an user interface by
ascii line characters (e.g. aptitude) instead of all the
border lines this strange 'oe' character is printed. I've
tried 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' but without any success.

Now concerning X and especially KDE. Some programs complain
about 'locales not configured for xserver' or vice versa
'xserver not configured for locales' or something, cannot
remember exactly.
Allmost ALL kde-programs give lots of error messages about
misconfigured icon directories in /usr/share/icons/...
'.xsession-errors' is spammed with this.
Some programs do not start at all saying something like 'QT
pixmap cannot be used without a GUI'.
And worst of all, allthough 'xfontsel' shows all the
standart fonts I expect of a common XFree-installation KDE
does not seem to see them, e.g. the standart Helvetica,
Times and Courier fonts are completely missing in KDEs
configuration dialogues.

Well if anyone could point me to a solution of one or more
of these problems I would be very happy.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Grischa

        
                
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